Nikhil Chaudhary

Introduction

I have conducted two fieldwork trips
amounting to 7 months in the Congo rainforest where I stayed and worked with
Mbendjele BaYaka Pygmies. During my fieldwork I collected genealogical and
anthropometric data, and conducted economic games and childcare focal follows.
I intend to use this data to study the evolutionary importance of social
relationships for childcare, marriage and health outcomes. This work is part of
the hunter-gatherer resilience project, which draws on research from genetics,
biological and social anthropology with hunter-gatherers from the Philippines,
Thailand and Congo.